Letters

Letters to the editor

Editor, Thanks for “Citizen Involvement Embedded in San Francisco’s Planning Process” in last month’s View. Note that there’s another approval process that wasn’t covered in the article: Large Project Authorization (LPA), which is required in the Eastern Neighborhoods for bigger developments. It was a LPA for 88 Arkansas that the Potrero Boosters took to the San Francisco…

Editor, The February piece the View ran in its Short Cuts section about Tacolicious’s new no-straw initiative was great, but it didn’t tell the whole story. You state that we’ve replaced our plastic straws with paper ones. In actuality, we’ve eliminated plastic straws entirely and paper straws are now available only by request, barring a…

Editor, I noticed that in the December issue headlines above articles written about three men running for District 10 Supervisor mentioned each candidate by name. Yet Uzuri Pease-Green, the only woman in the race, is simply referred to as “Long-Time Potrero Annex-Terrace Activist,” and not named in the headline above the story about her. I…

Editor, I’m shocked that the View would print such a comment from a Potrero Hill resident as appeared in the October “Short Cuts” column! I’ve lived on the Hill for more than 23 years. How could the community newspaper embarrass Sapporo, the recent purchaser of Anchor Brewing Company, which saved the brewery? Would the View rather…

Editor, Steven Moss really missed the boat on his trip to the land of my ancestors (“Publisher’s View: Fringe,” September). First, Edinburgh is a beautiful city. The blackened spires of the ancient towers are vestiges of a coal burning past, and make it feel haunted and unique. I visited a few years ago and had…

Editor, As I read Jason Bourne’s article about the cost of retaining commercial college counselors (“Families Retain “Counselors” to Negotiate Daunting College Application Processes,” July) and the quotes from an unnamed parent who felt that using these costly services exacerbated the divide between the haves and the have nots, I kept waiting to read a…

Editor, I came across the May issue and an article by Brett Yates on myself and my husband’s new restaurant, Glena’s, in Dogpatch (“A Day in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Environs”). I find it very unfortunate that no one reached out to us for this. We’re Potrero residents, and just became a family of four…

Editor, I read with interest “Large Mixed-Use Project Delayed by Litigation,” in last month’s View, which I found to be unbalanced and another example of advertisements for the “development at any cost” mentality that seems to have taken over San Francisco. Need a new stadium? Oh, it’s okay to build it right across from a…

Editor, In response to “City Budget May Face Cliff,” in the March View, it’s unfortunate that future generations, unable to vote today, will bear the costs of many enacted pension programs, entitlements and boondoggle projects, requiring them to pay higher taxes and work later into their lives to pay for these promises. It’s the inmates…

Editor, Thank you, The Potrero View, for publishing a mix of viewpoints on the Pier 70 redevelopment project. Potrero Hill residents deserve to know the degree to which their views will be obstructed, as well as the demands Pier 70 will place on already overtaxed infrastructure. The articles create an opportunity to have a more…

Editor, In regards to “Car Sharing Likely to Expand this Year” (February), I’d like to see reporting on how much business The Good Life and All States have lost in the past three years. What is the decrease in the number of customers in their doors between 2013 and today? What is the percent decrease…

Editor, As a member of the Driscoll’s family and the Bay Area farming community for more than three decades, it’s my responsibility to share facts about farmworker treatment in response to your story, “Driscoll’s Boycott Hampered by Poor Information” (December, 2016). A core aspect of Driscoll’s vision, one that I deeply believe in, is to…

Editor, I am a registered Democrat, but that does not change my absolute disgust for your front page story in the November issue (“Clinton Wins!”). I find the headline to be wholly misleading. Yes, if you take the time to read the article you’ll understand that it’s a prediction. But in my mind you have…

Editor, I’m writing as an old Potrero Hill resident to advise View readers of a serendipitous event. A month ago, my car was burglarized, right in my own driveway. Anything of value was stolen, including the prescription sunglasses I need for driving. A week or so later, I received a phone call from a local…

As the great, inimitable Yogi Berra once said, it’s dОjИ vu all over again. There are growing concerns among Dogpatch and Potrero Hill residents that the University of California, San Francisco is expanding outside Mission Bay. This, along with the tenacious legal actions by UCSF backers to block the Warriors Arena from being developed on…

Editor, I have a small business at 18th and Carolina streets. Many of my business neighbors are being evacuated for the 1601 Mariposa project; yet another residential monster which we don’t have the infrastructure to support. On a San Francisco Giant’s “game day” those of us living and working on Potrero Hill are…

Editor, Brilliant April Fools’ issue! Thanks for keeping it creative. Kate Hilsenbeck Denver, Colorado Editor, I was really happy to see Claire Botsy’s piece, “Anti-Abortion “Clinics” Continue to Operate in San Francisco,” in last month’s issue. I’ve observed with dismay an anti-choice billboard on Valencia Street, sponsored by “Pro Life Across America”, which uses the…

Editor, Contrary to “No Pesticides Used in Potrero Parks, According to Environment Department,” February, Aquamaster – Glyphosate – was used in Franklin Square on May 3, 2014. Other than that, your information is correct, Potrero Hill was spared. Tom Borden Portola Editor, I’m horrified with the cover story of your April Fools’ issue, poking fun…

Editor, Why would the University of California, San Francisco want to locate an academic building, the new Department of Psychiatry and Child, Teen Health Center, in a residential neighborhood and not at a key site on their Mission Bay campus, where construction has stalled, leaving many undeveloped sites by the campus core (“UCSF to Develop…

Editor, I was surprised to see “The Debate Rages: Are Turf Fields Safe?” in last month’s View. The article is factually incorrect, as artificial turf isn’t being considered for the Potrero Hill Recreation Center renovation. The $4 million project is funded by the 2012 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Bond. The scope will likely include replacement…

We begin the New Year with the indisputable knowledge that global climate change is a scientific fact. Debates rage about when, why and how our climate future will unfold, but the reality that the oceans are warming, the ice caps are melting, natural disasters are raging, and air quality is dissolving into a mist of…

Editor, I hated the headline “Good Life Grocery Facing Thousands of Dollars in Recycling Fines,” in last month’s View. That headline is so inflammatory, and gives the impression that The Good Life is a bad grocery store. The Good Life is one of our neighborhood gems; a great local store run by great people who…

Editor, Apropos of “Drought Impacts,” in the August issue, Paul McDonald should simply submerge his entire hose in the tub, make sure all the air is out of it and that it’s totally filled with water. Then, while underwater cap one end of the hose. Take the capped end down to the tree; the…

Editor, I’m a long-time volunteer at Martin de Porres. Although I was pleased to see an article about us in your August paper, by Christopher Lefond, there were some unfortunate errors in the story. Specifically, we serve lunch Tuesday through Saturday, not two days per week, as Lefond wrote. We also serve a brunch on…